Trips
Costa Rica: January 2004
Leah and I along with 11 other friends rented a house at Sugar Beach
in the Guanacaste region on the Pacific Coast. The house was the
"Grand
Villa" of the Sugar Beach
Hotel. Leah did a phenomenal job organizing the trip. The
area is a tropical dry forest with a great number of reefs and
islands close to shore. Rocky headlands, low moisture deciduous
trees, and a dry sunny climate that is an ideal balance between
warmth and the cooling effects of the equatorial Trade winds. I'll
elaborate even more once I have time. For now here's the
not-fully-uploaded picture gallery: Costa
Rica 2004
Dominican Republic: February 2004
The company (Dynamic Logic) for
which I worked five years in NYC treated us and a guest (Leah of
course), to go the Caribbean for our yearly off-site and strategy
meeting. Two mornings of meetings together with afternoons and at
least one full day of free-time. We stayed at the Occidental
Allegro resort. The beach was very paradaisical, the resort was
good too, barring the unimpressive clientele and the aggressive
staff (stark opposite to the CR disposition) which has made me even
more wary of standard resorts. Overall though, we had a great time.
We hung out with friends from work and their guests, I did some
snorkeling with my new Sherwood
mask and snorkel and even went sailing on a small catamaran for the
first time. The beach is a white sand expanse dotted by palm trees
and lapped by translucent water with few waves (a barrier reef a
few miles of shore marks the breakpoint). Dan took some pictures:
Dominican Republic 2004